Rebirth starts with small money

Chapter 661 See What Chief?I want to meet the Google Twins!

In the end, Howard Wise stayed and had a "reunion dinner" with Chen Li and the others.

Uh~ Actually, this can no longer be called a New Year’s Eve reunion dinner, it’s just a dinner party.

Because of Howard's joining, there was no Chinese New Year atmosphere at the dinner table, and everyone talked about work-related matters.

But what can be done?People are coming, Chen Li can't be driven back, can he?
Besides, even this house was provided by Howard, how could Chen Li have any qualifications to let Howard leave?
So~ Chen Li had a very bad time this Spring Festival.

After dinner~ the group went to Chinatown as planned.

I have to say that the Spring Festival atmosphere in foreign countries is really stronger than that in many places in China.

The sound of gongs and drums ~ the flags are flying ~ it's so lively!
Chen Li hadn't experienced this kind of scene for many years.

When Chen Li was young, during the Spring Festival, the town would organize waist drum teams, yangko teams, stilt teams, etc. to carry out activities, and even invite some acrobatic troupes to perform in the town.

But I don't know when, this activity suddenly disappeared, and it continued until the town started tourism development and then slowly recovered.

But the commercial atmosphere of that kind of activities and performances is too serious. It is not to celebrate the Spring Festival, but to attract tourists.

Although there is no conflict between the two, there are still some differences in the feeling.

And this kind of feeling. Chen Li also felt a little bit at the activities in Chinatown, but generally speaking, the atmosphere of the Spring Festival here is indeed very strong.

This brought a very intuitive impression to Zhang Ruolan~Mu Xiaoqing and even people like Ma Xiaoyun who live in big cities~.

Yes~ It's actually quite strange in China. The bigger the city, the more prosperous it is, but the atmosphere becomes weaker during the Spring Festival.

In a few years~ in some prosperous big cities, the whole city will even appear empty during the Spring Festival, and you can only feel the atmosphere of the Spring Festival only by going to supermarkets or some places that are still open during the Spring Festival.

Chen Li still remembers a year when he didn't go back to his hometown for the New Year, and then went out to buy daily necessities by bus on New Year's Eve. At that time, he was the only one on the bus that was always crowded.

On the contrary, Erlong Town, Chen Li's hometown, had various activities during the Spring Festival. Although the commercial atmosphere was a bit strong, it was really lively.

"Sister Zhang, help me remember."

"I plan to do some activities every Spring Festival in the future."

"The specific things will be arranged at that time. You should write down this matter first."

Chen Li is usually very busy, although he is not the kind of trapeze person who is always busy every day 360 days a year, but compared to ordinary people, Chen Li's work is indeed a bit cumbersome.

Yes~ It's cumbersome, not tiring. After all, Chen Li is considered a mental worker, and because of the advantages of the system and rebirth, Chen Li can handle many things relatively easily.

But even so~ Chen Li is far busier than ordinary people. After all, there are quite a few industries under his name, and most of them are in the stage of rapid development, so Chen Li's affairs are naturally more cumbersome.

At this time~ the importance of the assistant is reflected, if there is no assistant Zhang Ruolan, Chen Li's thoughts at this moment may be forgotten by him tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.

Then next year's Spring Festival, maybe Chen Li will remember this incident again, and then...forget about it!
There is no way~ There are too many things that require Chen Li to use his brain every day. If it is not the kind of things that need to be executed immediately, it is difficult for Chen Li to think about those things that take a long time in a short time.

"Okay ~ Boss!"

Zhang Ruolan immediately took out a small notebook from her pocket and recorded what Chen Li mentioned. Later, she would record this matter in a work memo and enter it on the work computer.

In this way ~ not only her personal assistant will see this memo, but Chen Li and other work and life assistants will also be able to see this memo.

And even if she later leaves or ignores the memo due to other issues, it won't really be forgotten.

"Although the Chinatown here is lively, to be honest, if we want to talk about excitement, we should actually go to San Francisco!"

The person who can say this is naturally not Chen Li and the others, but Xiao Wise who rushed over after the noon dinner.

This guy took a group of beauties to an unknown place to hold a party early in the morning, and then rushed back to the villa after the dinner with Chen Li and others.

Because Chen Li didn't "betray" him, the relationship between Little Wise and Chen Li seems to be much closer now.

"San Francisco!"

San Francisco in the mouth of Wise is the San Francisco in the Chinese population, also known as San Francisco.

In fact, if New York's geography and economic influences are put aside~ New York's Chinatown is indeed inferior to San Francisco's Chinese neighborhood, which is the stronghold of American Chinese!

"That's right~ Aren't you going to Silicon Valley in two days?"

"It's not very far from San Francisco, you can go and have a look."

"There are many Chinese people there, and the Chinese culture there is much more "authentic" than New York."

Little Wise's understanding of Chinese culture is only half-baked, so what he said~even with Chen Li's English level, he needs to think carefully before he can understand.

What Xiaoweisi said actually meant that the Spring Festival atmosphere in San Francisco was stronger than that in New York, and it was more interesting.

The festivals here in New York are actually quite invaded by the commercial culture, compare. This is New York!

The Spring Festival activities held here are not only to celebrate the Spring Festival of Chinese people, in fact, a large part of the reason is for those tourists.

"Forget it~ wait for the next time!"

Chen Li shook his head and rejected Xiao Wise's proposal. After Red Horse Technology goes public, he will indeed go to California. Not only him~ Ma Xiaoyun and others will go there.

This is an invitation sent by Howard Wise when he left before. It is said that the chief of Yahu invited them to visit the Yahu headquarters.

For this reason, Ma Xiaoyun and Zhou Hongyi were very excited.

The reason is very simple. In the field of computer and Internet, if you want to select the most outstanding Chinese at the beginning of this century, then the chief of Yahu is definitely the well-deserved NO.1!

Because just last year, the market value of Yahu reached 1280 billion US dollars.

According to the current exchange rate, that is to say, the market value of Yahu has exceeded one trillion Huaxia coins.

So~ to be invited by that chief. Both Ma Xiaoyun and Zhou Hongyi seemed very excited.

They planned to go to the headquarters of Yahu with a learning attitude, and planned to learn from the chief.

To be honest~ For any Chinese who is engaged in the computer and Internet industry, it may be a good opportunity that they can't wait for.

However, Chen Li lacked interest in this.

There is no other reason~ Yahu's good days are not long.

And many people regard this kind of visit as a way to learn advanced management experience, but in fact it is all nonsense.

Chen Li definitely doesn't think that he can really learn anything by chatting with people in the past~visiting it.

Even if you want to learn it, then you can't learn it from the Yahu chief?

In all fairness~ the chief of Yahu is indeed very good, otherwise Yahu would not be able to develop to the scale it is today.

But from an objective point of view, the rise of Yahu is actually largely a dividend of the Internet bubble.

As for the chief of Yahu, Chen Li, recognized the other party's excellence, and also recognized the other party's foresight and vision in the Internet industry, but Chen Li did not think the other party was an excellent manager.

After all, what did Chen Li learn from him?Do you learn how to change CEOs frequently?
Or is it like they missed Google~ and the negotiation was successful, but the price was temporarily lowered at the last minute~ did it lead to the failure of the acquisition of Facebook?

Or ~ imitate them for not selling it at a high price of 500 billion U.S. dollars, but only sold it for 48 billion in the end?
Not to mention anything else, let's just talk about the fact that Yahu has changed 22 CEOs in 7 years. But any manager with a normal mind is basically unable to do such a thing.

Especially for a large-scale Internet company like Yahu, it is estimated that a CEO will spend a lot of time just to find out the situation of his own company.

And when the CEO figured out the company's operating conditions and understood the current company's specific situation and began to flex his muscles. The CEO was replaced.

Of course~ Some people may think that if the CEO is not capable enough, it is natural for him to be replaced.

So here comes the question~ How did these "insufficient" CEOs get into the position of CEO?
What kind of role did the chieftain play in these matters?
In any case, Chen Li felt that it was based on emotion and reason~ the decline of the frequently replaced CEOs and even the entire Yahu must have something to do with that Yahu chief.

Of course~ this is actually very normal, after all, no one is perfect!

Just like Ma Xiaoyun's management team is a good guy, but if you let him do research and development, it will be difficult for him to succeed.

So. It's not that he has any opinions on this Yahu chief, but that if he really wants to visit and study, Chen Li actually has a better choice.

That's right~ Chen Li went to California not to meet the Yahu chief, but to meet the two juniors of the Yahoo chief.

That's right~ it was the later famous Google Twins.

In fact, if you want to talk about Chen Li's biggest regret during this trip to the United States, that is. His plan to invest in Google failed.

When Xu Xing went to the United States to recruit people to start YouTube and Facebook, Chen Li also gave Xu Xing another task, which was to contact Google to see if the other party had any plans to accept investment.

But the reality is cruel!
Although the establishment of Google was very difficult at the beginning, even the initial capital was [-] US dollars that the two founders drew from their credit cards.

Later, although I got an angel investment of [-] US dollars from others, that little money was just for Google to spend the first days.

But a good project never lacks visionary investors, so in 2500, Google directly received up to [-] million US dollars in venture capital from Sequoia Capital and other investment institutions.

And it is precisely because of this $25000 capital injection that Google today is not short of money at all.

In the previous life~Google received these two venture capital investments before it went public, one amount was 10 US dollars~the other was 2500 million US dollars.

Therefore, the result of Xu Xing's contact with Google made Chen Li a little disappointed.But this is also something that can’t be helped, after all, when Google is short of money. He also has no money.

But disappointment is disappointment, Chen Li didn't think too much about it, after all, money is endless in this world.

At the same time, although it is almost impossible to invest in Google, Xu Xing has become friends with the two founders of Google with his own personality charm, so this time Chen Li went to California not to meet the Yahu chief, but to go to Meet the two founders of Google.

Of course, there is actually another factor in this, that is, Mu Xiaoqing is currently shorting Yahu.

So ~ out of emotion and reason, Chen Li would not choose to meet that Yahu chief.

Of course~ it is impossible for Chen Li to tell others about these details, and he even specially told Ma Xiaoyun and Zhou Hongyi not to tell the chief Yahu that he was going to meet the two founders of Google.

Because according to the gossip that Chen Li saw from the Internet in his previous life, it is said that the relationship between the two founders of Google and the chief of Yahu is not very good, although the two companies are still in a cooperative relationship.

It is said that the two founders of Google planned to sell Google to Yahu, but the chief rejected their proposal, but gave them another chance.

The Yahu chief outsourced the search business to Google. If it weren't for this reason, it is estimated that Google's subsequent development may not be so smooth.

But this does not mean that the relationship between the two founders of Google and Chief Yahu is very good.

Because it is said that once Google held an event, it was originally intended to invite the Yahu chief to give a speech, but not only was he rejected, but the two founders of Google even heard some bad words.

Of course, these things were all gossip that Chen Li heard from the Internet, but whether it was facts or gossip, Chen Li didn't want to bring any trouble to Ma Xiaoyun and Zhou Hongyi.

And in fact~ the biggest reason for the decline of Yahu in the previous life is actually the rise of Google, so the relationship between the two sides...is definitely not much better.

Of course~ These things may not have happened yet, or they may have happened, but Chen Li thinks it's better to care about some things.

After shopping in New York's Chinatown for half a day, Chen Li and the others returned to the hotel. This time, everyone simply ate some dinner, and then went back to their rooms to rest.

After all, tomorrow is the day when Red Pony Technology officially rings the bell on NASDAQ, so it is natural to need a good mental state to face this rather important day.

But ~ at 10:[-] that night, a well-dressed brunette appeared at the door of Chen Li's room.

She stepped on high-heeled shoes, and her long legs looked full of agility under the wrapping of black stockings. The black lace hollow dress on her body made her look full of charm.

Then~ she rang the doorbell of Chen Li's room, and as the door opened, Chen Li's voice came from inside.

"Monica? Why are you?"

"You're so late. No, wait.!"

The brunette walked into the room with her head bowed, and then the door was closed.

(End of this chapter)